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• Value


  The participation of an entity in the larger order of which it is a part
• Value of human being

  Its participation towards mutual fulfillment (harmony) starting from within themselves, then extending in their family, in the society and in nature
• Content of Value Education

  Understanding human being, human aspirations, happiness; understanding the goal of human life comprehensively; understanding the other entities in nature, the innate inter-connectedness, the harmony in the nature/existence and finally the role of human being in this nature/existence
• Basic human aspirations


  Continuous happiness and prosperity
• Basic requirements for fulfillment of human aspirations

  Right understanding, relationship, and physical facility (in that order of priority)
• Physical facility is necessary but not adequate for human beings, unlike animals
• Lack of fulfillment in relationship is a major reason for unhappiness, not just lack of physical facility
• Living in opposition or struggle for survival is not naturally acceptable, living in harmony is
• Human consciousness


  Living with right understanding, fulfillment in relationship, and physical facility (in that order of priority)
• Animal consciousness


  Living for physical facility alone, without right understanding and fulfillment in relationship
• Many people today lack physical facility and are unhappy and deprived, or have physical facility but are still unhappy and deprived
• Holistic development


  Transformation of consciousness to human consciousness, through right understanding, fulfillment in relationship, and physical facility (in that order of priority)
• Role of education-sanskar


  Facilitate holistic development by ensuring right understanding in every child, the capacity to live in relationship, and the capacity to identify the need for physical facility and sustainable production leading to prosperity
• Education develops the right understanding (holistic perspective), and sanskar is the commitment, preparation and practice of living with right understanding
• Value education


  Understanding human aspirations, discovering what is truly valuable (human value) in life
• Value of any entity

  Its participation in the larger order of which it is a part
• Content of value education

  • Universal, rational, natural, verifiable and leading to harmony
• Process of value education

  A process of self-exploration, rather than being prescriptive
• Basic aspiration of a human being

  Continuity of happiness and prosperity
• Things required to fulfil basic aspiration


  • Right understanding
  • Relationship
  • Physical facility
• Human consciousness


  Living with continuous happiness and prosperity by ensuring right understanding, fulfilment in relationship and physical facility in the correct priority
• Holistic development


  Transformation from animal consciousness to human consciousness
• Role of education-sanskar


  Most significant in the transformation to human consciousness
• Process of value education - self-exploration

  1. Discovering human values through self-discovery

  2. Verifying proposals based on natural acceptance

  3. Dialogue between "what I am" and "what I really want to be"
• Natural acceptance


  Innate, definite, universal, uncorrupted acceptance that is a part of every human being
• Happiness


  State of harmony
• Unhappiness


  State of contradiction
• Happiness is to be in a state of harmony
• Unhappiness is to be forced to be in a state of contradiction
• Prosperity


  Feeling of having more than required physical facility
• Requirements for prosperity


  • Right assessment of physical needs
  • Ensuring availability/production of more than required physical facility
• Without right assessment of physical needs, feeling of prosperity cannot be assured
• When feeling prosperous, one naturally thinks of nurturing and enriching others
• When feeling deprived, one thinks of exploiting and depriving others
• Prevailing notion of prosperity is based on accumulation of physical facility/money
• Expanse of human living


  • As an individual human being
  • As a member of a family
  • As a member of society
  • As a unit in nature/existence
• Program for continuity of happiness

  1. Understanding harmony at all levels of being (individual, family, society, nature/existence)

  2. Living in harmony at all these levels